My claim? Names of Jameses, through
historyspeak,
in due time wind up rhyming with ‘Jimmy
the Greek.’
Who is James, King of Scotland, but Jimmy
Antique?
Who is Jimmy Durante but Jimmy the Beak?
Isn’t James Joyce the novelist Jimmy
Oblique?
Ain’t the Good Book’s James Lesser just
Jimmy the Meek?
Isn’t Bond…James Bond…aka Jimmy the Chic?
(As for Susan Saint James, ain’t she Jim
So-to-Speak.)
Who are Jones, Beam and Watt? Aren’t
they Jimmy the Clique?
Who’s the Godfather (James Brown) but
Jimmy the Shriek?
Isn’t James Beard the chef Jimmy Bubble
and Squeak?
(When he’s sautéing onions, he’s Jimmy
the Leek.)
Isn’t James Earl Ray actu’lly Jimmy the Bleak?
Shouldn’t teamster James Hoffa be Jim
Up-the-Creek?
Isn’t James the Fat (Mor Stewart) Jim
Chubby Cheek?
Harvard’s James D. G. Wood? Who but
Jimmy Critique?
Jimmy Carl Black? Who but Jimmy the
Freak?
And James MacNeill Whistler’s just Jimmy
Technique!
John Lennon’s real name? Jimmy
Eight-Days-a-Week.
(And somewhere there stands a James
taking a leak.)
In Melbourne, ’07, there’s Jimmy the
Streak.
Isn’t fashion’s James Galanos Jimmy
Boutique?
(Jamie Harris the glass artist’s Jimmy
Lalique
and each blackbird you see might be Jimmy Cacique.
Some note: “Jimmy Marlu’s not Jim
Martinique,
but I
think Lizha James might
be Jim Mozambique.”
Jesse James assumes names: ain’t one Jimmy
the Sneak?
And the West’s Edwin James: ain’t he Jim
of Pike’s Peak?
Flautist James Galway passes as Jimmy
the Squeak.
Author P. D. James has to be Jim Hide-and-Seek.
(Or perhaps P.D.’s actu’lly Jimmy Mystique.
Jimmy Shergill of Bollywood’s Jimmy the
Sikh.)
Isn’t James Earl Jones oftentimes Jim
Vaderspeak?
Surely Javans are fond of their Jimmy
Batik!
And there’s, somewhere, some Arab called
Jimmy the Sheik.
(None are easy to find. Still, to find
you must seek.)
Isn’t Baldwin, occasion’lly, Jim
Fit-of-Pique?
James Kisiki of films: Jimmy Diabolique?
Dennis James, bodybuilder: not Jimmy
Physique?
(Ain’t Ezekiel aka Jimmy the Zeke?)
Where’s the card-playing James known as
Jimmy Bezique?
One more James whose geek name rhymes
with ’Jimmy the Greek.’
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"How did words originate? What theories chart their birth...?" In Theory or The Corey Lewandowski Approach to Language Origin: A Constrained Nonsense Rhyme
How did
words originate? What theories chart their birth?
In bow-wow
theory, Man apes sounds all ‘round -- for all he’s worth.
In pooh-pooh theory, Man responds to worry or surprise
or pain or fear. (Says pooh-pooh theory, "That’s how words arise.")
In pooh-pooh theory, Man responds to worry or surprise
or pain or fear. (Says pooh-pooh theory, "That’s how words arise.")
In ding-dong
theory, Man reverberates with Nature’s tone.
(Of all these theories, ding-dong seems most largely overblown.)
In ta-ta theory – one the linguists know as yo-heave-ho –
Man’s tongue mimes gestures made while he hoes yet another row.
(Of all these theories, ding-dong seems most largely overblown.)
In ta-ta theory – one the linguists know as yo-heave-ho –
Man’s tongue mimes gestures made while he hoes yet another row.
In la-la-theory,
Man’s inspired by playfulness and love.
But one new theory’s superseded all of the above.
In womp-womp theory, language starts when certain soulless men
poke fun at children’s suffering. It’s happening again.
But one new theory’s superseded all of the above.
In womp-womp theory, language starts when certain soulless men
poke fun at children’s suffering. It’s happening again.
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